It should have loaded the devices bearing the given UUIDs into /media/DownloadsBin and /media/VMs appropriately with rw permissions, right? Well, since these are windows partitions, I had to mount them using NTFS-3g. I can see the files, but whenever I even try to create a new folder (e.g. using mkdir test), I get the error:

mkdir: cannot create directory ‘test’: Read-only file system

The strange part is a similar script worked before on Fedora 26, although I'm not sure if it's got something to do with Fedora 27 Beta (a bug?!) or if there's an error in my code. So, I've come to ask the experts for help!

NOTE : I really don't wanna mess around with partition or the folder permissions, especially changing the owner, since windows started complaining and stopped me from writing to the disk the last time I tried this! I'm hoping there's a better way I can share entire partitions between Win 10 and Fedora 27 Beta without pissing either operating system off?!

Upon further investigation, it turns out that the partitions might be mounted as read-only as confirmed by findmnt /media/(dir):

1 Answer

Welcome to ask.fedora! I've seen this issue a number of times when mounting a partition from fstab that isn't partitioned with a Linux filesystem. I've always found that adding umask=0000 to the mount options clears it up. (No, I don't know why it worked on Fedora 26 but doesn't work now.) Also, as Fedora 27 is still in beta, you'd probably do better asking questions on the appropriate mailing list, as this site is mostly for fully-released versions. In any event, good luck, and keep us informed.